Fireflies 201 - 208 [German translation]

201

True end is not in the reaching of the limit,

but in a completion which is limitless.

202

The shore whispers to the sea:

"Write to me what thy waves struggle to say."

The sea writes in foam again and again

and wipes off the lines in a boisterous despair.

203

Let the touch of thy finger thrill my life's strings

and make the music thine and mine.

204

The inner world rounded in my life like a fruit,

matured in joy and sorrow,

will drop into the darkness of the original soil

for some further course of creation.

205

Form is in Matter, rhythm in Force,

meaning in the Person.

206

There are seekers of wisdom and seekers of wealth,

I seek thy company so that I may sing.

207

As the tree its leaves, I shed my words on the earth,

let my thoughts unuttered flower in thy silence.

208

My faith in truth, my vision of the perfect,

help thee, Master, in thy creation.